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this has probably been said elsewhere and better but i miss the days in star wars when the oppressive empire was made up of white men with british accents. that wasn’t an accident and it wasn’t a trivial decision, like they are the face and voice of power and oppression both in the past and today. giving these roles to women and people of color feels like… idk obfuscating or something? like don’t get me wrong i very much want more diversity in star wars, but the empire being a monolithic sea of white men with imperial accents, and the good guys being a diverse crowd of allies from all demographics, it implicitly communicated something important.
wait op are you talking about the poc inquisitor
yeah i made this post after watching the kenobi trailer and seeing reva, but i was also thinking about moff gideon in the mandalorian, trilla in the jfo game, and the character design choices of the bad batch tv show. i was thinking about how there’s a pattern in making the empire and the villains more diverse, but the leads are somehow still white, and how the implications of that are bad.
Who Belongs in Doggy Heaven? The Religious Subversion of Our Flag Means Death
hello transfem ed truthers and enjoyers this is a fucking fantastic reading in terms of contextualising ed’s femininity as something empowering and religious to her please check it out
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ALT(ID in alt) honestly reading an article from a popular and highly regarded website and seeing them refer to ed with she/her pronouns as they talk about how she literally reclaims religion and the concept of god for herself as something inherently feminine in order to save herself and her mother from her father’s abuse and a patriarchal society as a whole, literally becoming her own god to protect herself from the one that approves of a world that hates her, was one of the most earthshaking experiences of my entire life I feel like I just took a fucking party drug or something. I’m crawling around on the ceiling right now. I can’t believe this is real
Who Belongs in Doggy Heaven? The Religious Subversion of Our Flag Means Death
hello transfem ed truthers and enjoyers this is a fucking fantastic reading in terms of contextualising ed’s femininity as something empowering and religious to her please check it out
Izzy Hands is Kylo Ren: Or, An Informal Exploration of Fandom’s Proclivity Towards Minimizing and Sympathizing with White Male Violence
i brought this undertaking upon myself by putting this thought out there (and getting cursed with the knowledge that this take makes izzy/ed reylo) without my full intent to write the post. my being cursed is my own fault, my own cross to bear, my own self made misery. however, i’m going to make this analysis EVERYONE’S problem now because jokes on all of us, i wrote the post.
notes for readers: this meta is just under 6500 words. i have tried to divide it into thematic sections determined by bolded lines. sometimes i will reiterate previous points with expanded discussion because i always have more to say. big thanks to @dragonzair@plotdesignerand@twelvemonkeyswere
so to get the ground work settled: obviously izzy hands is not identical to kylo ren, given that he is not the fallen son of heroes, nor directly a key figure of a fascist empire. however, in the context of our flag means death and its fandom, particularly the portion that favors izzy and takes him at his word without examining the underlying context of his scenes and dynamics with other characters, there is a LOT of similarity between the ways that the two characters enact violence, and in the way the fandom response is geared towards sympathizing with these two characters for said violence while also and minimizing their responsibility for it.
